Category: Fertility

The fertility of species and named daffodils.

My Favorite Miniature From the Amity Daffodil Festival

Hybridized by my friend Walter Blom. This little charmer is 37mm in diameter or under 1 1/2″ in diameter. Lightly reflexed or backswept petals are reasonably wide and rounded. I adore the scalloped brim of the corona and the rolled…

Standard Size White/Orange Trumpet Seedling

This has color and is a true trumpet. The perianth is very white which is a good thing. However, a few weak points: it really doesn’t have very wide petals and is thinner in substance than my ideal. It also…

Standard Trumpet ‘Sherwood Gold’

An unusually long trumpet that is 5mm longer than the perianth segments! A real “snouter” yet balanced, smooth and elegant with a narrow, refined trumpet. Winner of Best Seedling (while under number) in Show at the Murphy’s California National Convention.…

Very Tiny Miniatures

My talented plantsman friend, the late Dr. Frank Galyon sent me a bulb of a very, very tiny form of N. fernandesii. I used every scrap of pollen and set seed on it once after which, it promptly died. This is…